Vmotion without Shared Storage

We recently purchased essentials plus licensing and have not deployed vcenter yet. We were also looking into VSAN or other small SAN, but see that Vsphere 5.1 enables the use of VMotion between datastores without having Shared Storage.

Has anyone had any experience using this feature and if so what is the benefit to a small environment to use this feature instead of shared storage?

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